savestate for end of clanker's cavern If you make a savestate at the end of each of Sami's levels, you will have no problems ever. He might redo the current stage, but simply use the savestate before hand. Voila! Was that so tough? Nnnnnnnnnnnoooope!
"why the hell are you allowed to even decide it's his duty to even do the run?"
I'm not, and I never said I did. It's his decision, and it is not the obligation of the runner to make savestates for watchers.
"all I did is asking friendly if he could provide a savestate next time if he were to redo something. notice the word please in my post. yet, appearantly, I can't even ask something here without being yelled at by people I didn't even direct my post at."
There has been way too much yelling lately on the forums, and I apologize that you feel I'm yelling at you.
"what the hell do you care if I ask for a little something of the runner? it's not like he has to go out of his way, since he should be keeping savestates on his own anyway, so it's hardly much more asked to upload the most relevant savestate aswell."
Just how busy of a person is Sami do you think? You have no idea of his time table; he could very well be out doing homework, chasing girls, clubbing, whatever. You don't know his schedule, so don't act like it's his responsibility to take care of your need.
Also, you forget that mupen comes with 9 savestates. Sami is probably using all 9 of those savestates to TAS with, meaning that they are unavailable to use. So, no, he probably does not have savestates in the exact spot where you need them, so it'd take him the EXACT amount of time it'd take you to make them.
Also, one point you keep missing is it's not like it's hard for YOU to go out of your way to make them. What, does the savestate making button on your keyboard not work?
"I mean, he could also just say like "another level finished" and not give out his m64 either. same thing."
Different thing actually. You can't watch the movie if he doesn't give the .m64, but you can watch the movie if he doesn't give savestates.
"I'm doing a friendly request, and so far Sami is the only one who hasn't provided savestates yet (out of the runs that I follow(ed), which is about 7 or so)"
So this automatically makes Sami the bad guy?
"without me having to make savestates every minute of the run since it is possible that he redid something SOMEWHERE I CAN'T EVEN PREDICT BEFOREHAND"
He clearly says "I'm going to improve this level". Also, we are not making savestates every minute of the run. I have 6 so far. If you're right, I should have 49.
"well guess what I'd rather wait for the whole thing to be done than having to do all that as a viewer."
Laziness wins, eh?
"any input someone could have had during the making of the run won't be of any use to the run if that someone doesn't watch the WIPs. I'm not that desperate for this run. anyone who makes all their own savestates is beyond desperate, imo. it's like as if you intend to coauthor the run and redo parts when you feel like it since you have all the savestates at your possession anyway. "
Ok, those of us that make savestates are not desperate. it is quite average to make savestates when watching the progress of longer runs. QUITE AVERAGE. We are also not trying to be co-authors. we won't be actively TASing any part of the run, only a very few of us will make some suggestion for how it can be faster.
Being a savestate maker makes you a more dedicated/smart kind of WIP watcher.
1) you can rewatch certains egments over, if you find one level very entertaining or want to review it
2) you won't need to re-watch segments you've already seen.
No, seriously I won't show anything until submission, and I'm steadfast in that decision. You'll all love the surprise factor so much more. You have nothing to fear, it will eventually be complete, I won't leave it unfinished, especially because the reason Nitsuja stopped is the speedrunners kept finding new strats and beating his times (at this point I'm the one that finds new stuff and they need to find ways to incorporate my findings into their runs) and I have memory watching.
As to progress wise, I just finished the Migen Sr. segment of the Migen Brawl, which is the 21st level out of 52 (most of the long stages are coming up in world 3 with the day of events. World 4 and 5 are actually shorter than world 3 is). I still have no idea how long the run itself will be in total length... 45 minutes? 50? 55? Do know that 32 minutes will be the mark for the beginning of world 3.
